Just to put things into proportion:

This is vienna. Vienna has an area of around 400 km².

And the blue area is the area that would have to be covered by solar panels to produce enough energy for the whole city:

Source: I did the maths myself. I assumed that per person around 30 MWh of energy/year are needed. Data for this: our world in data, energy usage per person. It’s well known that 1 m² of solar panel produces around 200 Wp and that’s 200 kWh/year. So you need about 150 m² of solar cells per person. Vienna has about a million inhabitants, so that makes 150 km² of solar panels approximately.

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    6 days ago

    Well fusion is not ready, so in the meantime, let’s build fission, solar and wind plants to get rid of coal, oil and gas as much as possible

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      5 days ago

      let’s build fission

      How about not doing that and instead just building more renewables?